Why Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic is the nation's best hospital (U.S. News & World Report, 2021-2022) and ranked #1 in more specialties than any other care provider. We have a vast array of opportunities ranging from Nursing, Clinical, to Finance, IT, Administrative, Research and Support Services to name a few. Across all locations, youll find career opportunities that support diversity, equity and inclusion. At Mayo Clinic, we invest in you with opportunities for growth and development and our benefits and compensation package are highly competitive. We invite you to be a part of our team where youll discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, mutual respect, and most importantly, a life-changing career!

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Position description
Are you looking for an opportunity to apply your knowledge organization, metadata, and ontology chops to world-class health information? Does the integration of semantic structure with rich metadata and content models to facilitate multi-channel delivery interest you? Help us build a next-generation connected content platform and knowledge graph for the No. 1 hospital in the world, providing information to consumers, patients, and clinicians where it is needed, when it is needed.

Provide leadership in the development, management and implementation of the Mayo Consumer Health Vocabulary and other controlled vocabularies and ontologies to support navigation systems, search mechanisms, search engine optimization and personalized delivery of health information and services for Mayo Clinic Health Education and Content Services. Work collaboratively in cross functional teams to assess ontology needs to support product development across the department. Strategically lead the incorporation of machine learning and automatic classification approaches to the Semantic Services Environment. Champion semantic modeling, structured content, and metadata standards as integral part of enterprise content strategy. Evaluate content domains, conduct content audits and analysis to inform the ongoing development of the Mayo Consumer Health Vocabulary and other industry standard vocabularies like SNOMED CT. Supervise and direct ontology specialists and manage projects requiring substantial intra-organizational coordination.

Qualifications
Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS) or comparable degree in areas such as information systems, knowledge management, or computer science is required. Eight years experience in ontology/taxonomy development and management. Proven track record of leading ontology/taxonomy implementation for the complete life cycle of a web product or technology. Experience evaluating effectiveness of taxonomies/ontologies in supporting products and services. Experience with taxonomy-management systems. Expertise in: information retrieval/search, information organization and classification, and content or entity extraction. Strong analytical skills; experience with both quantitative and qualitative methods desirable. Demonstrated leadership abilities for managing people and projects. Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Additional qualifications
Machine learning background preferred.
Experience with TopBraid, Protg, PoolParty, or other graph-based taxonomy/ontology management tools preferred.

Exemption status
Exempt

Compensation Detail
$87,110 - $130,748 / year

Benefits eligible
Yes

Schedule
Full Time

Hours / Pay period
80

Schedule details
This position is full time, 40 hours a week, This position is 100% remote; can work from anywhere in the U.S.

Weekend schedule
N/A

Remote
Yes

International Assignment
No

Site description
Mayo Clinic is located in the heart of downtown Rochester, Minnesota, a vibrant, friendly city that provides a highly livable environment for more than 34,000 Mayo staff and students. The city is consistently ranked among the best places to live in the United States because of its affordable cost of living, healthy lifestyle, excellent school systems and exceptionally high quality of life.

Recruiter
Stephanie Finer

EOE
As an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer Mayo Clinic is committed to creating an inclusive environment that values the diversity of its employees and does not discriminate against any employee or candidate. Women, minorities, veterans, people from the LGBTQ communities and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply to join our teams. Reasonable accommodations to access job openings or to apply for a job are available.